Family and Education
b. 12 May 1581,C142/262/106. 1st s. of James Quarles of Stewards, clerk of the Greencloth and surveyor of marine victuals, and his 2nd w. Joan, da. and h. of Edward Dalton of Moor Park, Much Hadham, Herts. Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 474. educ. privately (Thomas Foster, by 1589), Essex RO, D/AEA 14, f. 157. Emmanuel, Camb. 1599, L. Inn 1600. Al. Cant.; LI Admiss. m. (1) 2 Sept. 1601, Hester (bur. 9 Sept. 1612), da. of Sir Edward Lewkenor I* of Denham, Suff. 4s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) 8 Apr. 1614, Anne (bur. 14 Oct. 1616), da. of William Brewster of Castle Hedingham, Essex, wid. of Sir Thomas Seckford (d.1610) of Great Bealings, Suff., 1da. d.v.p.; (3) 6 May 1617, Mary (bur. 3 Mar. 1665), da. of Henry Parvish, Haberdasher of London and Ruckholts, Leyton, Essex, 2s. 1da. E. Anglian, iii. 173, 203, 242, 243; n.s. iv. 230-1; Vis. Essex, 474; Add. 19086, f. 63; PCC Admons. 1609-19 ed. M. Fitch (Brit. Rec. Soc. lxxxiii), 113. suc. fa. 1599; Kntd. 5 Mar. 1608. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 144. d. 2 Feb. 1639. C142/623/51. sig. Rob[ert] or Rob[er]t Quarles.
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Coroner, Liberty of Havering-atte-Bower, Essex 1607–8; M.K. McIntosh, A Community Transformed: the Manor and Liberty of Havering, 1500–1620, p. 425. commr. gaol delivery, Havering-atte-Bower 1610 – at least18, sewers, Havering and Dagenham levels, Essex 1612 – at least22, Chipping Ongar bridge to Ilford bridge, 1620, Rainham bridge to Mucking Mill 1627, C181/2, ff. 114, 168, 313; 181/3, ff. 19, 43, 233v. inquiry, Waltham Forest 1616; C66/2090, dorse. j.p. Essex 1622–d.; C231/4, p. 284; HMC 10th Rep. iv. 502, 506. commr. oyer and terminer, Essex (highways’ repair) 1622, C181/3, f. 68v. Home circ. 1638–d., C181/5, f. 141. subsidy, Essex 1624, 1625, 1628, C212/22/23; E115/101/33; 115/87/14. Forced Loan 1626–7, Bodl. Firth C4, p. 257. charitable uses, 1629-at least 1637; C192/1, unfol. kpr. Leyton, Wanstead and W. Hainault Walks, Essex 1634-at least 1638. W.R. Fisher, Forest of Essex, 384; CSP Dom. 1637–8, p. 328.

Main residence: Stewards, Romford, Essex.
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QUARLES, Sir Robert (1581-1639)

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